· Private foundation
The Sidney and Betty Shames Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Sidney and Betty Shames Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Sidney and Betty Shames Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $68k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k16 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JCC OF MID WESTCHESTER | $20,100 |
| FEEDING WESTCHESTER | $20,000 |
| HIAS | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDER | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION | $2,000 |
| OSSINING CHILDREN'S CENTERILDREN | $2,000 |
| JCC ON THE HUDSON | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTE INC (JDC) | $2,000 |
| AUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK INC | $2,000 |
| THIRTEENWNET | $1,000 |
| WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CAMP NEJEDA | $1,000 |
| PHELPS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO (WNYC RADIO) | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FWFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC4× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue +31%
- WMWestchester Medical Center Foundation7× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +40%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2017–2022 · $22k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPYone grant, 2022 · $5k
CITY HARVEST INCone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +3%
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +34%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Westchester Medical Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PHELPS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP NEJEDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OSSINING CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Ossining Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Bessemer Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sidney and Betty Shames Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sidney and Betty Shames Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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